OPINION
Opinion column in Architecture NZ by Lynda Simmons (2019-21) and reviews
Conversations. Architecture NZ, January 2021. Pp. 15-16
Image: Jingyuan (Jenny) Wang ‘Kauri. At the foot of a giant’ – from A City of Invisible Spirits, 2020, MArch(Prof ) thesis.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 9 February 2021.
Parallel Education Systems. Architecture NZ, November 2020. Pp. 15-16
Image: Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe, Section (partial), ‘The Ritual Unfolding of an Event’ from Te Whare Tapu o Ngāpuhi: An Architectural Response to Taonga Revitalisation, 2014, MArch (Prof) thesis.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 17 November 2020.
The Disappearing Plan and Section. Architecture NZ, September/October 2020. Pp. 16-17
Image: Robert (Haejun) Park, ‘Section E-E’ from Post Civic: Revisiting the Auckland Railway Station’, 2015, MArch (Prof) thesis. Also Robert (Heachoon) Pak.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 19 October 2020.
The Value of Print. Architecture NZ, July 2020. Pp. 16-17
Image: Lynda Simmons, Life Drawing, Isalena (1986) – Architecture Archive, University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 30 July 2020.
Environmental Emergencies. Architecture NZ, May 2020. Pp. 13-14
Image: Morgan Allen, ‘Dissolved Monument’ from ‘Set in Stone – intentional memory in architecture’, (2020) MArch (Prof ) thesis.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 29 May 2020.
The Education of Architects. Architecture NZ, March/April 2020. Pp. 16-17
Image: Sarah Bookman ‘Composition study of pipework’ – from The Shift from the Personal to the Public: The (small) room in the (large) city, (2017) MArch (Prof) thesis, University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 17 March 2020.
Change is Difficult. Architecture NZ, January/February 2020. Pp. 14-15
Image: Albert Livigisitone Refiti, ‘O Le Loa o Fesulufaiga: A Tomb in Flight’, Panel 1 of 4 from a submission for (and winner of) the Jacobsen Student Travel Award 1989. Derived from ‘The Embassy of the Non-Dweller’ (1989), BArch thesis.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 29 January 2020.
The Power of Awards. Architecture NZ, November/December 2019 (Issue 6). Pp. 14-15
Image: Mustafa Mora, plan - from The 5-thousand- year line, (2017), MArch (Prof) thesis.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 19 November 2019.
Making Room. Architecture NZ, September 2019 (Issue 5). Pp. 14-15
Image: Theja Jayalath ‘Perforated’ – from ‘Drawing Inhabitation’, (2016) MArch (Prof) thesis.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 17 September 2019.
The Issue of Unpaid Hours. Architecture NZ, July 2019 (Issue 4). Pp. 16-17
Image: Marianne Calvelo, ‘Legitimising the margin’ – from Mad Women: Legitimising Public Domesticity, (2013) MArch(Prof) thesis.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 30 July 2019.
Empty Architecture. Architecture NZ, April/May 2019. Pp. 16-17
Image: Raukura Turei (Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru) ‘Conceptual Plan Event Phases 1 and 2 (cropped)’ – from Looking Up Skirts: Te Hiki a Hine-Ruhi, (2011) March (Prof ) thesis.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 4 June 2019.
Loss and Libraries. Architecture NZ, Feb/March 2019. Pp. 16-17
Image: Sharon Jansen, Wharf View, Auckland 1982, Architecture & Planning Library, the University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.
Also published in ArchitectureNow 25 March 2019.
HOME Magazine February / March 2014
On the last page of each issue, HOME magazine publishes a 'My Favourite Building' image and commentary. The Feb/March issue has a favourite by Lynda Simmons, one of the co-founders of A+W•NZ. She chose The Teps, because of its personal historic and current links between her grandfather and her children, and because of its historic and current role it plays in the city. And for its interior beauty, combining light, water and shadow.
Reviews
Re-imagining Urban Communities. A Review of The Greenhouse by Ockham Residential (2023).
Architecture NZ, May/June 2024. Pp 68-76
Also published in ArchitectureNow 15 May 2024.
The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw McCahon Dibble The collaborative projects 1965–1979. Architecture NZ, November/December 2021. Pp 133-134
Also published in ArchitectureNow November 2021.
Nature Building: Architectural Perspectives on a Visitor Centre for Kāpiti Island. Architecture NZ, September/October 2019. Pp. 86
Words by Lynda Simmons.
NZ Constructor July 1990 pg 2
Exhibition Review, The Fox Gallery, Auckland, 1 May - 1 June 1990
NZ Constructor November 1990 pg 4
Review - Architecture Week 1990 Slide Show